Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A Correction For Your Notes
In the lecture last Friday, while speaking about the Parthenon, I mentioned the the roof had been blown out when munitions stored there had exploded during World War I. How I made this mistake, I don't know, but this actually happened during a war that was fought during the 17th century. Please make the necessary corrections in your notes.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Simon Schama's THE POWER OF ART: Bernini
Below is Simon Schama's documentary on Bernini in it's entirety. It is, unfortunately, split up into 9 chapters because of Youtube's restrictions on the length of videos.
Quiz #3
Below are nine images from which I will choose the five that will be used for the quiz. Beneath the images are the two essay questions. Remember that if there is no artist listed for a work, I want you to list the work's location, instead. Study up!
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Conversion of Saint Paul
1600-1601
Paolo Veronese
Feast in the House of Levi
1575
Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Creation of Adam
1508-1512
Giotto di Bondone
Lamentation
1305
Gianlorenzo Bernini
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
1645-1652
Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nebumun
Egypt
c. 1450 BCE
Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens
c. 448-432 BCE
Polykleitos
Spear Bearer
Roman copy after a Greek original of c. 450-440 BCE
Scene from The Papyrus of Hunefer
Egypt
Egypt
c. 1375 BCE
Essay Questions:
1. Define the term Hierarchic Scale and give examples of how you have seen it utilized in the art you have seen in class.
2. Define the term Renaissance and give some examples of how the characteristics of the Renaissance era are demonstrated in the art that you have seen in class.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Terms of the Day for March 26
Renaissance - literally translated “rebirth” - the period of European history in which the rediscovery of classical Greek art, philosophy, and science led to renewed interest in an intense study of the world and the limitless potential of individual human beings.
Humanism - a philosophy which encompasses a wide range of ethical stances that attach importance to human dignity, concerns, and capabilities, particularly rationality.
Sfumato - Italian term meaning “smoke”, describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci's work.
Reformation - a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
Counter Reformation - a period of time beginning late in the 16th century in which the Catholic Church underwent a series of internal reforms in an attempt to halt the growing number of conversions from Catholicism to Protestantism.
Baroque - the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.
Chiaroscuro - the use of bold contrasts of light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body in paint.
Rococo - a style of art popular among the 18th century French aristocracy stressing purely ornamental, light, casual, irregular design and frivolity.
Humanism - a philosophy which encompasses a wide range of ethical stances that attach importance to human dignity, concerns, and capabilities, particularly rationality.
Sfumato - Italian term meaning “smoke”, describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci's work.
Reformation - a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
Counter Reformation - a period of time beginning late in the 16th century in which the Catholic Church underwent a series of internal reforms in an attempt to halt the growing number of conversions from Catholicism to Protestantism.
Baroque - the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.
Chiaroscuro - the use of bold contrasts of light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body in paint.
Rococo - a style of art popular among the 18th century French aristocracy stressing purely ornamental, light, casual, irregular design and frivolity.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Terms of the Day for March 19
Civilization - cultures that have fairly complex social orders and relatively high degrees of technical development.
Ziggurat - massive religious temples built in ancient Mesopotamia and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Pyramid - a gigantic mountain-like structure built in ancient Egypt as a burial vault for a pharaoh.
Hierarchic Scale - the manipulation of size and space in a picture to emphasize the importance of a specific object or figure.
Classical Art - art which emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion.
Capital - the top of a column; it identifies the column’s architectural order.
Idealized - the representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show the characteristics considered most important by a given culture.
Icons - small Byzantine style paintings, usually depicting a biblical figure or a saint, which are used to inspire devotion during worship, but not worshiped in themselves.
Flying Buttress - An arch or half-arch that transfers the thrust of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support.
Ziggurat - massive religious temples built in ancient Mesopotamia and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Pyramid - a gigantic mountain-like structure built in ancient Egypt as a burial vault for a pharaoh.
Hierarchic Scale - the manipulation of size and space in a picture to emphasize the importance of a specific object or figure.
Classical Art - art which emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion.
Capital - the top of a column; it identifies the column’s architectural order.
Idealized - the representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show the characteristics considered most important by a given culture.
Icons - small Byzantine style paintings, usually depicting a biblical figure or a saint, which are used to inspire devotion during worship, but not worshiped in themselves.
Flying Buttress - An arch or half-arch that transfers the thrust of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Another Opening Tonight
I'm sorry this is such late notice. I only just found out about it myself:
Ryan VanderLey
Ice Hockey Is For Abstract Painters Who Are Tired Of Defending Formalism
On view March 3 - 30
Linda Ross Gallery
Reception
Friday, March 5
6 - 8 pm
5040 Sanderlin Ave
Suite 104
Memphis, TN 38117
Reception
Friday, March 5
6 - 8 pm
Art Openings Tonight
I have made mention of these shows earlier on the blog, but I just wanted to post this reminder. These are all opening tonight. Perhaps I'll run into some of you out there.
The Opening is Friday March 5th 6-8PM in the upper gallery at MCA.
AltiplanoNew Works by
Keiko Gonzalez
Lisa Kurts Gallery
766 South White Station Road
Memphis, TN 38117
901.683.6200
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 6-8 PM
Exhibition on view March 5-April 30.
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land"
Friday, March 5, 2010
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Material
2553 Broad Avenue
Memphis, TN
Material is excited to announce its fifty-sixth exhibition: Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land."
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land" will run from March 5 through 27.
The reception will be on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Susan Maakestad earned her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A. and M.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She is Associate Professor of Art at Memphis College of Art, where she has taught since 1997. She was awarded a regional National Endowment for the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been included in the national publication "New American Paintings" and The Painting Center in New York's online "Art File." Her work has been exhibited nationally. She is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis and Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis. She is also the long time radio host of "House Bayou" on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis.
About the show the artist writes:
“I am attracted to the spaces between things, the unnoticed marginal spaces in the urban landscape. Likewise, as a painter I like painting in the unsettling place between abstraction and naturalism. I find inspiration in ordinary and overlooked urban areas, spaces filled with concrete and asphalt. Merely imitating the natural world does not interest me. I am moved by the internal logic of paintings themselves, a world where things make sense somehow. Or almost don’t. Where everything lives and breathes in tension held together by beauty and paint.”
In January 2008 Maakestad began monitoring Milwaukee traffic cameras from her computer. She would watch as blizzards emptied the freeways of commuters and softened the geometry, blurring the edges of nature and culture. Empty spaces were filled first with snow and sleet and then with private distractions. Traffic Land is a series of drawings based on those webcam images. It is a construction, a vision of the urban landscape mediated by the practical role of traffic cameras and the poetic inclinations of a solitary viewer.
jpg info: maakestad_pr.jpg is "Mile Marker #3," 12 x 14", oil on canvas, 2009. Additional images of the artist’s work can be found at www.susanmaakestad.com.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
About Material: Founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004, Material is a 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghamton neighborhood of Memphis. Taking the name from Montessori learning tools, Material was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo. Come visit.
Contact:
Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Susan Maakestad, 901.272.5187, susan@susanmaakestad.com
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land" will run from March 5 through 27.
The reception will be on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Susan Maakestad earned her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A. and M.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She is Associate Professor of Art at Memphis College of Art, where she has taught since 1997. She was awarded a regional National Endowment for the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been included in the national publication "New American Paintings" and The Painting Center in New York's online "Art File." Her work has been exhibited nationally. She is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis and Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis. She is also the long time radio host of "House Bayou" on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis.
About the show the artist writes:
“I am attracted to the spaces between things, the unnoticed marginal spaces in the urban landscape. Likewise, as a painter I like painting in the unsettling place between abstraction and naturalism. I find inspiration in ordinary and overlooked urban areas, spaces filled with concrete and asphalt. Merely imitating the natural world does not interest me. I am moved by the internal logic of paintings themselves, a world where things make sense somehow. Or almost don’t. Where everything lives and breathes in tension held together by beauty and paint.”
In January 2008 Maakestad began monitoring Milwaukee traffic cameras from her computer. She would watch as blizzards emptied the freeways of commuters and softened the geometry, blurring the edges of nature and culture. Empty spaces were filled first with snow and sleet and then with private distractions. Traffic Land is a series of drawings based on those webcam images. It is a construction, a vision of the urban landscape mediated by the practical role of traffic cameras and the poetic inclinations of a solitary viewer.
jpg info: maakestad_pr.jpg is "Mile Marker #3," 12 x 14", oil on canvas, 2009. Additional images of the artist’s work can be found at www.susanmaakestad.com.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
About Material: Founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004, Material is a 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghamton neighborhood of Memphis. Taking the name from Montessori learning tools, Material was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo. Come visit.
Contact:
Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Susan Maakestad, 901.272.5187, susan@susanmaakestad.com
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Expectations For The Research Paper
You are expected in this class to complete one five-page research paper on a particular artist, group of artists, period, or media of your choice. This paper is due April 16. Here are the expectations for that paper:
1. A title page (title of the research paper, your name, the class title, my name, and the date).
2. FIVE pages of text (12-point font, double spaced, 1-inch margins).
3. At least THREE sources (books, magazines, websites), but no more than ONE of them may be an Internet source.
4. A bibliography page.
Instructions:
As mentioned above, you should choose as the topic of your research a particular artist (Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, etc.) or a group of artists (the Impressionists, the Futurists, etc.) or a period of art (the Renaissance, the Romantic Era, etc.) or a particular medium (painting, sculpture, etc.).
Next, go to the library and search online for information about your chosen topic. Find historical, biographical, and technical information you want to include in your paper. Whatever sources you choose must be sited in your bibliography at the end of the paper.
I will make another post at a later time giving you the format for siting works in a bibliography.
Now, write your paper (5 pages) and DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! Look for ways to relate what you are writing about to the things we have learned in class.
Sufficient grammar and spelling. It needs to be readable.
The sooner you get this paper out of the way, the better.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.
New (Yet Again) Class Schedule
Class Schedule
3-5 Mid-term exam
Spring Break March 8-12
3-19 PART FOUR | Art as Cultural Heritage Chapter14 From the Earliest Art to the Bronze Age; Chapter 15 The Classical and Medieval West
3-26 Chapter 16 Renaissance and Baroque Europe
Good Friday April 2
4-9 Chapter 17 Traditional Arts of Asia; Chapter 18 The Islamic World and Chapter 19 Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
• Quiz #3
4-16 PART FIVE | The Modern World, Chapter 20 Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and Chapter 21 Early Twentieth Century
• Research Paper Due
4-23 Chapter 22 Between World Wars and Chapter 23 Postwar Modern Movements in the West
• Quiz #4
Week 14 Prepare for Final Exam. During the last week of the semester classes do not meet at their regular times, the whole college coverts to the Schedule of Final Examinations. Check the schedule for the date and time of your Final Exam.
3-5 Mid-term exam
Spring Break March 8-12
3-19 PART FOUR | Art as Cultural Heritage Chapter14 From the Earliest Art to the Bronze Age; Chapter 15 The Classical and Medieval West
3-26 Chapter 16 Renaissance and Baroque Europe
Good Friday April 2
4-9 Chapter 17 Traditional Arts of Asia; Chapter 18 The Islamic World and Chapter 19 Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
• Quiz #3
4-16 PART FIVE | The Modern World, Chapter 20 Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and Chapter 21 Early Twentieth Century
• Research Paper Due
4-23 Chapter 22 Between World Wars and Chapter 23 Postwar Modern Movements in the West
• Quiz #4
Week 14 Prepare for Final Exam. During the last week of the semester classes do not meet at their regular times, the whole college coverts to the Schedule of Final Examinations. Check the schedule for the date and time of your Final Exam.
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